Well, it seems I will be 10-digited again soon. Hallelujah! As illustrated in the above before and after pictures, my pinkie is on the mend and I will soon have the use of all 10 of my fingers. I have new-found respect for physically challenged people. And I will never take for granted simple tasks like typing, showering and [...]
Summer in Japan means those noisy semi (cicada) are back. It seems for a month or so every tree in Yokohama is infested with these bugs. They unnerve me. I hate bugs. But most Japanese welcome the sound as a New Yorker might welcome the music of an ice cream truck or a firecracker’s explosion [...]
Yesterday I was sitting in the outdoor section of a Starbucks near Yokohama station sipping coffee when I noticed a butterfly fluttering around as if it was checking out the cafe to see if it were a good place to settle down and raise a family. At that moment something came over me…a wonderful feeling [...]
Well, the results are in on the Japansoc July Matsuri. Please go and check out the wonderful layout and great selection of blog posts regarding the weirdness that Japan has to offer the foreigner. It’s a really impressive job by the July Matsuri host blogger Gakuranman! Loco
I woke up the other day to the sound of a voice through a loudspeaker crying something repeatedly in a beckoning voice and I had no idea what he was saying but it reminded me of back home when, from the Muslim Temple’s loudspeaker, a voice would croon “Allah U Akbar” over and over until [...]
Friday was the last day of school and there were no classes on this day, so what do you suppose the kids did? I mentioned in a previous post that Japanese students clean their classrooms on a daily basis (something that American schools would benefit from immolating emulating (-; I believe). Well, on the last day of [...]
There’s an annual English speech contest for junior high school students held in the Yokohama area and last summer I was asked by the Japanese English teacher at my school to help proofread and edit a couple of speeches the two contestants, a 3rd year and a 2nd year student, had written for the occasion. “Sure…sounds like fun.” I didn’t know [...]
I have begun my summer reading a little earlier than usual…my summer vacation actually begins this Friday, but I saw David Sedaris’ latest book, When you are engulfed in flames, in Kinoukuniya and bought it immediately. He makes me laugh out loud in inappropriate places and at inopportune times but I don’t care. I need to, sometimes, [...]
At a bar in Kannai with my boy from my Nova days … Him: So, when you headed back to civilization? Me: Hell if I know…I think I’m stuck here. Him: Sheeeet, I ain’t stuck nowhere! Soon as Obama gets his magic wand out of his ass and fixes the economy I’m gonna… Me: Stop lying! [...]
We met two Saturdays ago, in Akihabara, at an electronics shop. I was in the market and she was on it. She was just sitting there looking luscious, not unlike a dozen other models confined to this area of the shop. Other Akiba heads, A.K.A. Otaku, passed her by, their eyes glued to other models more popular with anime [...]
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